Conor B. Hamill

Senior Data Scientist at NatWest Group | Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics PhD Graduate

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Senior Data Scientist

NatWest Group

Edinburgh, Scotland

Data scientist/AI researcher working in financial services, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests consist of supervised learning techniques, agent-based modelling, model drift estimation, and human-like abilities of large language models, alongside enduring curiosity about astrophysics and quantum computing. Outside data science, I enjoy travelling with my wife, espionage and thriller novels, comedy podcasts, and cooking.

I graduated from my integrated Master’s in Physics from Queen’s University, Belfast in 2017. My Master’s project consisted of contributing to the development of a laser system for discriminating between chiral molecules, with experiments taking place at Uppsala University.

Following my Master’s, I started my PhD in experimental nuclear astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh. My initial research included being part of the A2 collaboration at the Mainz Microtron MAMI, Germany, with focus on photo-nuclear reactions. I undertook simulations and experimental preparation for the measurement of astrophysical reactions relevant to the production of radioactive nuclei in supernovae at the ISOLDE facility at CERN and a participated in the running of experiments into radioactive isotopes at the CRIB facility, Japan. My main PhD research topic consisted on measuring transfer reactions at TUNL, North Carolina, USA, for nova explosions and the astrophysical weak s-process, which can be read here.

I defended my PhD in 2021 and joined NatWest Group as a data scientist in the Data Science & Innovation team. My work at NatWest has consisted of developing machine learning models across a range of domains in the bank, as well as undertaking AI research for financial services as part of the NatWest AI Research (NAIR) team.

My published research works as a PhD research student and during my time as part of NAIR in NatWest can be found under the publications tab, as well as by following the link to my Google Scholar profile below.

news

Jan 13, 2025 My work as part of NatWest AI Research (NAIR) using agent-based modelling to model credit card promotions is published in the International Journal of Bank Marketing :credit_card:
Dec 10, 2024 Attended NeurIPS 2024, sponsored by NatWest
Sep 06, 2024 On the 6th September, Raad Khraishi and I will be presenting a talk at ODSC Europe 2024, titled “Simulating Human Behaviour in Financial Contexts: Leveraging AI and Agent-Based Models”, highlighting some of the research being undertaken at NatWest Group. :speech_balloon:
Aug 21, 2024 Represented NatWest at the careers event of the 2024 Nuclear Physics Summer School in Durham

latest posts

selected publications

  1. A Brief Review of Quantum Machine Learning for Financial Services
    Mina Doosti ,  Petros Wallden ,  Conor Brian Hamill , and 3 more authors
    2024
  2. Int. J. Bank Mark.
    Agent-based modelling of credit card promotions
    Conor Brian Hamill ,  Raad Khraishi ,  Simona Gherghel , and 4 more authors
    International Journal of Bank Marketing, Jan 2025
  3. Study of the 25Mg(d, p)26Mg reaction to constrain the 25Al(p, γ)26Si resonant reaction rates in nova burning conditions
    C. B. Hamill ,  P. J. Woods ,  D. Kahl , and 5 more authors
    The European Physical Journal A, Feb 2020